He had never done something like this before. High Elves might have digressed a bit into physical fitness but they never tried this. They were just innately agile. He was learning more about life and its workings of it the more he examined his body. He had based his former concept on the law of life but got to know more about life in this endeavor. Life is different for different races and doesn't always mean flesh and vitality.
Transcendents don't have a fleshy body, and neither do elementals but they are alive just as much as a creature with flesh and blood. His law of life had been focused on the conversion of energy into whatever a creature needed to maintain its life. It was holistic but now he is learning about the specifics of vitality.
